Archil Gomiashvili
| Archil Mikhaylovich Gomiashvili | |
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| Born |
არჩილ მიხეილის ძე გომიაშვილი March 23, 1926 Chiatura, Georgia, USSR |
| Died | May 31, 2005 (aged 79) Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1938-1988 |
| Awards | People’s Artist of Georgia (1966) |
Archil Mikhaylovich Gomiashvili (Russian: Арчи́л Миха́йлович Гомиашви́ли, Georgian: არჩილ მიხეილის ძე გომიაშვილი, March 23, 1926 in Chiatura, Georgia, USSR – May 31, 2005 in Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Georgian theatre and film actor (People's Artist of Georgia, 1966) best known for his part of Ostap Bender in Leonid Gaidai's 1971 adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs. In the late 1980s Gomiashvili quit the stage to become a businessman, the Ostap Bender Club owner, and philanthropist.
Archil Gomiashvili was born on March 23, 1926 in Chiatura, Soviet Georgia. His father, an Institute of Red Professors graduate, was the Donbass miners' trade-union leader, when in the years of the Great Purge he was arrested, to be freed only in 1944.
Having spent two years in the Tbilisi Academy of Arts' school, Archil Gomiashvili joined the Moscow Art Theatre's college-studio but had to leave Moscow in 1948 after some incident involving fistfight. In 1958 he moved to Poti to join the Eristavi Theatre's troupe, then returned to Tbilisi as a member of the Russian Griboyedov Theatre.
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